Glee creator Ryan Murphy has confirmed that Jonathan Groff will return to the show in the future.

Groff appeared in several episodes of the first season as Jesse St. James, a love interest for Rachel (Lea Michele).

"Jonathan is doing a play in London until January," Murphy told E! Online. "But yeah, as it moves towards the big competition, I think he has to come back and give Rachel a pep talk, don't you? So yes, he will be back."

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Murphy confirmed that Idina Menzel and Kristin Chenoweth will return and admitted that he would love Neil Patrick Harris to reprise his role as Bryan Ryan.

"We have a little problem that he's a regular on another show [How I Met Your Mother]," he said. "But he's in the Fox family and they help us out a great deal with that. I think we've just begun to see the tip of the villainry for Bryan Ryan."

Murphy added that he will soon be writing a guest role for Javier Bardem, who requested an appearance on the show.

"I hadn't met him, so I went up to him and I said, 'Buddy, congratulations on your Best Actor nomination at Cannes'," Murphy explained. "And he said, 'I do not want to talk about that. I want to talk about Glee'.

"He rented the whole first season and watched them and said it was like crack to him. And he loved what it was about and he asked if I would write him a role. He said, 'I want to be a Spanish rock and roll star'. And so I'm going to see him this week and we'll see how he's going to fit in. It will definitely be in the second half of the season."